Category: Sports & Recreation
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Best sports team with unwavering support from queer Chicago
Before the Chicago Sky made it anywhere near the Women’s National Basketball Association finals against the Phoenix Mercury in 2021, you could find droves of queer women sitting in the […]
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Best homage to White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodón and his April no-hitter
White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodón threw a no-hitter against Cleveland on a Wednesday night in April. Within a couple hours of that victory, Chicago artist Mike Noren tweeted a hand-drawn […]
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Best tribute to my favorite team, from Van Lier to DeRozan
It’s an hour or so before game time, and I’m up in the nosebleed section, waiting for my beloved Bulls to start playing, and wondering what, oh what, to write […]
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Sports & Recreation poll winners
The people, places, and things voted Chicago’s best—and runners-up: professional women’s sports team, professional men’s sports team, sports facility, athlete, sports TV or radio announcer, lake swimming spot, canoe or kayak rentals, neighborhood park, dog park, and more
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Best of Chicago 2021 final ballot
Winners were announced in the March 3, 2022 special issue: Best of Chicago 2021 chicagoreader.com/best.
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Best of Chicago 2020: Sports & Recreation
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The freaking Chicago Bears gave me agita
We really could have used a win this year, and yet.
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Sports & Recreation poll winners
From Brianna Wellen’s introduction, “Losses and gains: Best of Chicago 2020”: Some business to get out of the way: the reader poll results were determined by you, the readers! If […]
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Women’s pro sports deserve our flowers and our dollars
We should all be fans of the Chicago Sky, the Chicago Red Stars, and the Chicago North Stars.
